One Spatchcocked Chicken – Four Dinners

02:40 PM, January 18, 2016 |

The UN may have declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. (Hurrah). Yet on a smaller scale I have declared 2016 as the Domestic Year of Thrift.

Oops, we say. The renovations are glorious. Absolutely glorious. And so they need to be. Because we’re going to be spending a lot of time in this kitchen (what kitchen? oh- THIS KITCHEN).

There are so many things I love about my new house. I love that the Smartstone Athena benchtop looks like Carrara marble, but without the high maintenance paranoia. Smoked paprika? Lemon juice? Acid? Red wine? Fine. I love how it feels under the heel of my hand when I knead pasta dough …

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Oat Flour Emergency Brownies

10:30 AM, January 11, 2016 |
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Do you need an emergency brownie recipe, stat? The kind of perfectly fudgy, throw-them-together-in-one-bowl, no creaming of butter/ sugar/ melting of chocolate, self reliant squares of indulgence that can right any wrong, right now?

If so, skip straight to the bottom. I have something that might help.

I have been making a lot of these brownies in these weeks of silence. I’m sorry. Life got full. Full not in the ‘gracious, I’m satisfyingly sated’. Full in the ‘awkwardly distended, leave me alone on the couch for a while’ sort of way. Sorry.

There were the renovations, which are 90 % done (grand reveal soon)  and have been a muddle of harried last minute …

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Grapefruit Glazed Roasted Roots with Quinoa and Almonds

01:15 PM, December 7, 2015 |
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Let’s not forget about the supporting acts. It’s easy in the advent of the silly season to get swept away with the main players. But let’s not forget about those on the side who pull everything together. I’m not just talking about you- the one who remembers to buy the paper napkins and sticky tape and empties the glasses from the dishwasher while everyone else is napping or hotly debating cultural relativism at the dining table .

I’m talking about the side dishes. The things that sit alongside your glazed ham, whole pink fish or bronzed turkey and help feed the masses.

Certainly, you could keep it plain and simple with limpid …

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